Transformational Leadership Award
The Transformational Leadership Award honors an organization that has excelled in developing and deploying transformational information technology that improves the delivery of care and streamlines administrative services. The award is given to the organization’s Executive Digital Health Leader and Chief Executive Officer, who recognizes the need for a strong partnership between its technology team and executive leadership. Transformation is a fundamental change in the way an organization or community delivers and/or administers healthcare, enabled by health information technology, with documented improvement in quality, efficiency, and/or financing.
Eligibility
This award is presented to the organization’s leading digital healthcare executive and Chief Executive Officer, highlighting the critical partnership between technology and executive leadership. Recipients of this award have driven fundamental changes in how their organization delivers and administers healthcare, achieving documented improvements in quality, efficiency, and/or financial outcomes, all enabled by innovative health information technology solutions.
Criteria
- The transformation must have been large-scale, significant, and demonstrated sustainability at the member’s organization or in the community, as applicable. Examples can include deploying electronic prescribing tools, CPOE, personal health records, electronic health records, data mining, community or RHIO efforts, and others.
- The organization must have documented results in quality improvement, efficiency gains, and/or positive financial returns.
- The specific process changes and benefits should be replicable in other organizations.
- The organizational transformation and/or results must have happened or been completed in the past year.
- The CEO must validate the change, the process, the benefits, and the role of the CHIME member in the transformation efforts.